Posted on 11/28/2007 1:47:52 PM PST by Alouette
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Martino - won’t he ever go away? He was a leftie blight when he was in NY, hanging out at the UN, and he hasn’t changed one bit.
“Vatican official backs right of return”
What business is it of his?
What about the Reconquista in Spain? The Vatican (or at least some of them) have gone off the way.
Good form must count as well as accuracy..
Israel should not ever grant any "right of return." Such a decision would be national suicide. This man's opinion should be ignored until he acknowledges that former Catholics should be allowed to participate in electing the next Pope. That would be fair, right?
Congressman Billybob
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
When the Romans defeated the Jews in AD70 (around) they named the Palestinians after the Jews worst enemy, the Philistines ... and Israel was renamed Palestine. So basically the Palestinians have no claim to a country inhabited by Hebrews for 4,000 years or so ....plus not all the Jews were driven from Israel - just mostly those who lived in Jerusalem - there always were Jews living there.
The RC meddler is irrelevant.
I guess being a cardinal doesn’t mean that you have to be particularly well-informed about important issues.
What has happened in the old Palestine mandate is partition and a partial exchange of populations. I say partial because while Israel allowed Arabs to stay if they wanted, all Jews were expelled from the West Bank and Gaza, and almost entirely cleared out of the Middle East.
This is no different from what happened around the same time in India and Eastern Europe. Muslims went to Pakistan (mostly) and Hindus to India (almost entirely). Germans left Eastern Europe and went to Germany. In each case the refugees were given citizenship rights and absorbed into the population.
What is different here is that the surrounding Arab states refused to give their refugees citizenship rights, which makes them essentially stateless, and kept them cooped up in refugee camps, aided and abetted by the UN.
IMHO what the Arabs have done is a gross violation of the Pali's human rights, done deliberately to try to destabilize the region and block the chances of peace with Israel. If the Cardinal cared a fig for human rights and world peace, this is the crime he would denounce.
Most of the Jewish settlements were close to the Israeli border. Why didn’t Sharon (and the rest of the Israeli establishment) incorporate them into Israel, simply making “Gaza” smaller, build a wall around the settlements, similar to the West Bank, and then attack the isolated Palis. It’s not that we or Israel are carpet bombing... the (relatively) few Pali targets, Israel attacks can be attacked pretty precisely.
I have to see it first, before I can join your praises.
Let’s wait and see. You could be right, but I disagree fundamentally with the “land-for-peace” policy. Sharon undoubtedly is one of Israel’s greatest military heroes, but his Gaza disengagement and Kadima split from Likud have me raising serious doubts on his political wisdom.
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